"ACS" in One

This last weekend I and 15 other rollerbladers went to the Bitter Cold Showdown, the biggest competition and trade show in the industry in Columbus, Ohio.

Besides skating an insane park, interviewing and talking with the pros, I checked out the booth for One Magazine. I pretty much had to for several reasons.

It's a great magazine with outstanding pictures, great stories, but the part I like the best is that it has more culture aspects of life than any other sporting magazine I've read. It's truly well-rounded.

For starters, it combined skating and writing. And secondly, I sent them a copy of A Constant Suicide. The editor, Justin Eisinger, had said he had read it, but never said whether or not it was going to be in the magazine in the "Tidbits" section.

I met Justin and he immediately recognized my name. Like it was no big deal, he said, "Yeah, the review's going to be in the next issue."

I said nothing. I was completely speechless. A blanket of euphoria covered me, wrapping me into moments than only a certain girl has made for me before.

Then it really hit me. My book, the self-published little piece of myself, will be featured to an international audience inside the pages of the best sporting magazine ever published. That, and considering other writers they've featured were Bret Easton Ellis and Chuck Palahniuk, two of my favorite authors.

HOLY FRIGGIN' CRAP! That's pretty much all I could say. Then I made a sad attempt at trying to be all cool about it, but I'm sure it failed.

Later in the day, I talked with Justin more about the magazine, skating, journalism and just writing. I talked with him about anything I could contribute to the magazine. I'm set to do book reviews.

So, subscribe to One and be on the lookout for issue No. 9 next month.

Until then, I'm going to be twittering like the big geek I am.